Me what I miss the most about the 1990's was the low gas prices, food, toiletries were a lot more affordable and of course the music was a lot better.
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dial up was terrible. you must be joking.
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shareBeing a kid. Playing outside with friends. Not having depression. Being friends with the girl who later became my first girlfriend. The great cartoons on TV. The fact that people weren't glued to a cell phone every second of every day.
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my bloody valentine
girls fancying me (not that it happened all the time, but i do miss getting the odd nice look or bit of attention).
quiet restaurants - the loudness wars seem to have bled over to far too many restaurants. when i find a nice restaurant with proper acoustics, they become my best friend.
I miss all the camping trips being an outdoors enthusiast; looking under the stars, leaning over a cozy camp fire, hearing wildlife at night, canoeing through river streams, hiking and exploring the native ecology of trees and plants as well as sight seeing insects and birds near the camp site. It's not something I get to do a lot these days having other responsibilities.
share1. The music.
2. Being 20.
3. Mostly fun, dating, friends trips with little "grind".
There were so many good bands and styles of music then in the UK.
Chemical Brothers, Leftfield, Oasis, Curve, Lush, Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses (1989 for the better stuff so bit cheating), Mazzy Star, Underworld etc. etc.
America had some great bands too but I always prefered the UK stuff.
Musically it was a great time.
i agree with that, i guess. i like some of those bands, don't like a couple of them, but in general, i do think that the 90s were perhaps the last gasp for invention, experimentation, boldness in popular music. not that i'm the final authority on such matters, as i don't follow music that closely now. and i certainly don't think it's the case that people just magically became less talented or daring.
i really think the decline of pop music (& films) can be laid at the feet of the internet. there was an episode of the great podcast econtalk that featured an interview with tyler cowen where he delved into these things a bit, and he made a pretty simple but very true point: popular music really hasn't changed much in the past 20 to 25 years. he used alanis as an example. if you go back through the evolution of popular music since the 50s, things continuously changed, right up to the mid-nineties. you can fairly easily tell whether a song was from the early 60s or the late 60s. you can tell an early 80s song from a late 80s song, in general (not always, but often, perhaps usually).
but if you play a song from jagged little pill, it doesn't sound that different from what a lot of modern rock bands sound like now. when i go to clubs and listen to bands, a lot of them sound like my blood valentine or pavement. and not just that they're influenced by those bands, in the way say the j&m chain were obviously channeling the velvets & can. the new bands really just sound like those bands. there's been no real stylistic change.
and i think it's almost certainly the case, and this is what cowen said in his interview, that this is really just the result of the collapse of the market for recorded music. there's no financial reward for innovation or boldness now in many ways, and as a result, styles are trapped in amber in a sense.
I agree.
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